Operational risk disclosure quality and national culture: Evidence from the EU banking industry

Basto, Florence Pinto and Marques, Ana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1595-0028 (2024) Operational risk disclosure quality and national culture: Evidence from the EU banking industry. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 55. ISSN 1061-9518

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Abstract

In this study, we analyze the association between national culture and voluntary operational risk disclosure quality in the European Union banking industry. Complementarily, we assess whether the potential impact of culture differs between global banks and banks with low levels of internationalization. Finally, we consider the impact of the formal institutional environment. Our sample covers 15 countries, and we construct a disclosure score based on hand-collected data. Three main results were obtained. First, banks in societies that score higher on individualism or long-term orientation and lower on uncertainty avoidance or power distance have better disclosures. Second, in global banks, where executive board members interact with stakeholders from different cultures, these associations are absent. Finally, contextual factors also affect the association between culture and disclosure, but this substitution effect is weaker than the one we document for globalization. Our results are robust to instrumental variables estimation, the use of the GLOBE project’s cultural dimensions, and a subsample analysis of civil code law countries.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding information: This research paper was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UID/ECO/00124/2013, UID/ECO/00124/2019 and Social Sciences DataLab, Project 22209), POR Lisboa (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722 and Social Sciences DataLab, Project 22209), POR Norte (Social Sciences DataLab, Project 22209), and PTDC/IIE-GES/2686/2014.
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Accounting & Quantitative Methods
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	25 May 2023 10:32
Last Modified:	09 May 2024 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92182
DOI:	10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2024.100614

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